Reputation Guide: Cenarion Circle

27Jun

About two years ago, I wrote a pretty guide on farming reputation with the Cenarion Circle (seen here). That worthless guide still gets a lot of traffic, so I decided to go take a read through it this week to see just how bad it was. It’s bordering on worthless; not to mention the fact that I misspelled the name in the first place. /facepalm

That’s one wrong that I can make right though, so this time we’re going to look at farming Cenarion Circle reputation with some information that might actually be useful. I’ll go over what quests you need to do, items you need to collect, and mobs you need to kill. I’ll also talk about what the benefits are to farming this reputation so that you know ahead of time what you’re getting out of it.

One of the great things about this reputation grind is that all of the methods available to earn reputation can be done all the way to Exalted, so if you find a method that you like you can just stick with it until you’re done.

Cenarion Circle Rewards
Most of the rewards for grinding this reputation come in the form of professions recipes. However, there is also a title that you can earn by becoming exalted with both the Cenarion Circle and the Cenarion Expedition.

None of the gear is especially useful in today’s game. However, the herbalism bags can still bring a surprising amount of gold in on some servers. On my Alliance server you probably couldn’t sell one of these if your account’s security depended on it. But, on my Horde server you can sell the 24 slot Satchel of Cenarius for about 250g. The 20 slot Cenarion Herb Bag doesn’t sell as well, and you can buy 20 slot profession bags (for most professions) from vendors in Outlands and now some of the racial capitals such as Orgrimmar as well.

With 32 and 36 slot Herbalism bags available now the potential profitability of these two is very much server dependent, so be sure to check prices on your local AH before you decide to farm this rep strictly for the sake of selling these bags.

One of the best titles for a Druid, hands down. It’s a great title for any class, not just the Druid, it’s just especially cool for them.

Farming Items
If you like to do you reputation grinding by farming items or buying them from the Auction House, then the Encrypted Twilight Text is what you’re looking for. You can farm these off of the humanoid mobs in Silithus that have “Twilight” in their name.

These Twilight mobs all have a chance to drop these texts, and their drop rate isn’t too bad, while the supply of mobs to farm them from is fairly high. So you shouldn’t have too much trouble farming these.

There’s also a an elite mob that paths around a couple of different places in Silithus called the Twilight Prophet who always drops 7-10 of the texts when you kill them. They can spawn at either of their locations or even both at the same time, and their spawn timers are 1-2 times per hour. They’ll be accompanied by two melee mobs who also have chances to drop the texts just like the other twilight mobs in the zone.

The Twilight mobs also drop a 3-piece cloth armor set which used to allow you activate stones around the twilight camps to summon elementals who could be killed for other quests and reputation. The cloth items still drop, but you can no longer use them to summon the elementals, so there’s no reason to farm these anymore. If you do find some of these cloth pieces your best option is just to vendor them, you might be able to sell them on the auction house if someone isn’t aware that they’re no longer useful, but it can’t be disenchanted either, so your best bet is to just vendor dim and get what small amounts of money you can.

Here is a map of the general location of all of the Twilight mobs, minus the Twilight Prophet:

This map shows the spawn points and pathing locations of the Twilight Prophet elite mobs:

Grinding Mobs
All of the Twilight mobs in Silithus will grant you 10 Reputation (before any bonuses), except for the Twilight Prophet who rewards 30 Reputation. The respawn rate of the mobs themselves is pretty average, but with four camps located around the zone it shouldn’t be too hard for you to get a steady farming rotation established, including a quick run down the Prophet’s spawn points.

You can also grind mobs in the Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj (AQ20) raid instance (which is now only a 10 man raid in Cataclysm). A full clear of the instance will grant you roughly 2,000 Reputation. Bosses grant 110 Reputation, except for Ossirian (final boss) who rewards 220 Reputation. That’s a total of six bosses, so 770 of the reputation for a full clear comes from bosses and the other 1,200 or so from the trash if you feel like calculating your chances for earning rep while skipping bosses if that’s how you’d prefer to do it. Most of the bosses really aren’t that hard to defeat, even solo, so there’s really no need for you to skip bosses.

As a raid, AQ20 will still lock you out if you kill the bosses in there, so if you want to do a constant farm then you’ll need to leave the bosses alone and reset after you’ve removed the trash, otherwise you’ll have to wait until your raid lock resets (every 3 days) to go in again.

Grinding Quests
You can find quests that grant you reputation with Cenarion Circle in Silithus, Desolace, Western Plaguelands, Eastern Plaguelands, Felwood, Un’Goro Crater and Southern Barrens. You can find a list of quests by following this link to Wowhead.

Desolace and Silithus are the two primary questing hubs, so if you’re going to farm the quests I would definitely start with those two since they have the most potential to get to the most reputation in the shortest amount of time.

If you’re a Druid then your level 20 class quest to go to SFK will grant you 500 reputation, and your level 50 class quest to go to BRD will reward 350 reputation. If you’re not a Druid… lesson learned, time to reroll.

Grinding Dungeons
The only real dungeon grind is the Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj grind I mentioned above in the Mob Grinding section. None of the other instances, including the Temple of Ahn’Qiraj, will give you reputation with Cenarion Circle – that I’m aware of. This raid has a 3 day lockout, so you can do it 23 times per week depending on where your lockouts fall.

Suggested Farming Method
The way that I suggest you find this reputation is to start out by doing all of the quests in both Silithus and Desolace, and then decide what you want farm. I suggest that you start farming the twilight mobs for the reputation and the twilight texts, especially the prophet. If you are able to solo AQ20, or if you have a guild that wouldn’t mind a fun retro raid, then you can also earn quite a bit of reputation with that. You might find it simpler and less hassle to just farm the twilight mobs for texts instead, which is the method I would likely choose.

Questing is going to be your simplest and “fastest” method of farming the reputation early on, and from there you can move onto grinding either mobs or drops. Many of the quest will require you to kill the twilight mobs who drop those texts anyway, so starting with questing is going to help you with your grinding later on.

If you’ve already completed all of those quests and you’re tired of grinding mobs and running dungeons, then I would suggest you go ahead and do the quests in the other zones that are mentioned above. When doing those other quests I suggest you do them in order of the zones’ average level from highest to lowest.

Also, you want to keep an eye out for the twilight texts on the auction house. With the questing areas newly redone many players are exploring zones again and rolling new toons. Those who quest in Silithus will likely sell their texts on the auction house.

How Long Is This Grind?
This grind really isn’t all that terrible. Some methods of farming the reputation are faster than others, so naturally your mileage may vary. When I did this on my Protection Paladin prior to Cataclysm, the grind took me roughly 4 hours. From what I’ve gathered in researching the changes after Cataclysm, this grind is even faster than that if you have a high level toon.

I am currently leveling up a toon who will farm this reputation for the herbalism bags, and I’ll update this post with the information on how long it takes me to farm it once I have it completed. I also plan to find this on my Druid so that I can get the title, at which point I will have another guide for the Cenarion Expedition as well.

8 responses to “Reputation Guide: Cenarion Circle”

My mage ground this out in Wrath, and after brief stints as Kingslayer and then Associate Professor, he has gone back to wearing this full time. Even though he’s not a druid, you gotta admit, Karius, Guardian of Cenarius sounds pretty awesome.

Any title that fits your character is great in my book. I like to use titles that have something to do with the character, whether it be their class, name, or something that defines them (to me).

Like when my druid’s name was Hotstuffbaby, the Flamewarden title fit her well. My Paladins will forever wear the Noble title. One of my friends, and fellow bloggers, has/had a toon named Ambassador, who wore the Ambassador title.

I pretty much did the same on my druid – all the Cenarion Circle quests, then I just logged in every half hour or so and killed the prophets :) Took just a couple of days of casual farming.

I already had the Cenarion Expedition at exalted to get my hippogryph and that was just as quick to achieve. Basically, all the CE quests listed on wowhead, then multiple runs of steamvaults (heroic and normal) farming the coilfang armaments. Again, took just a couple of days.

It took me about a week to farm CE to exalted on two toons at once. Farming it on the Paladin was nothing, hello AoE grinding. Farming it on the Mage wasn’t hard either, but it was slower. I farmed them for the Stealth enchant, the two toons being on different servers, but then I brought them to the same server and dropped the profession on the Paladin. Oh well, it was fun.

Another way to speed up the grind (killing time not real time, lol) is to check the Auction House for the Encrypted texts – I’ve managed to accumulate about 200 so far at less than 1g each. Also, if you want to make a bit of cash while waiting for the Twilight Prophet, kill the air elementals in the top left corner there – Essence of Air sells for 75-100g each. Eventually I will get off my butt & actually go do the quests but until then, I just stalk the AH :)

There’s nothing wrong with that. Now that people are actually leveling in Silithus again the texts should be showing up more frequently on the AH.

I considered mentioning the air farming, but being a guide about reputation farming I decided it wouldn’t really fit. I like that they apparently increased the drop rate of them again, though, as that killed my Agility enchant sells when the source dried up over night.

Excellent guide …and I agree wholeheartedly about titles fitting with names. It may not mean much unless you’ve read Terry Goodkinds “Sword of Truth” series but my Warlock Ráhl looks perfect with the 3k quest title “the Seeker” :)